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"Adolescence" is often mentioned with negative
connotations---suggesting lack of maturity. In fact,
adolescence is the age of integration of patterns for
perception, understanding, and decisions. If patterns are
not integrated in the age of adolescence, they tend to
form exclusive sets which are exceedingly difficult to
integrate in later years. Those patterns which are
internalized as exclusive elements of a personality become
set within the personality as being essentially exclusive
--- and resist future integrative efforts. To become an
integrative personality in the powerful years of middle
age a person should carry out the integrative process
during the formative years of adolescence. Failure to be
an integrative adolescent leads to disintegrative behavior
as an adult leader and/or a very difficult period of
trying to bring together apparently contradictory elements
of one's personality in the middle-years passage.
Middle-age teachers and administrators tend to vie
for the allegiance of adolescents who are seeking to
develop integrated personalities. The contest for their
allegiance tends to pull the adolescents apart and
undermine their integrative efforts. Mentors with
exclusive definitions of excellence are not able to help
adolescents who are seeking personal integrity, except as
they respect the adolescents' right to be themselves and
to be free to communicate freely among themselves and with
adults who are able to support their integrative efforts.
It may be helpful to become aware of the stages in
life when it is easiest for a person to grow in certain
ways. To the extent that integrative efforts may most
easily bear fruit in a certain developmental stage---to
that extent the educational process should be designed to
promote integrative growth during that developmental
stage. It is likely to be counter-productive to emphasize
specialization at just the time when integration may most
effectively be undertaken. Integration of new experiences
should be sought as they are internalized, not at some
later developmental stage when "maturity" has been
achieved---and experiences have been internalized with
exclusive claims being associated with each.
Internalization of eternal conflict results from deferral
of integration until after the appropriate developmental
stage/passage for integration.
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